If you are a good developer, you are probably smart, right? So why would a smart person let something happen to him that he can't fix? Would it be possible for

If you are a good developer, you are probably smart, right? So why would a smart person let something happen to him that he can't fix? Would it be possible for a dev manager to apply as senior dev in another company? I think they are not unhappy. They just don't want to admit it. Either they really enjoy this additional human interaction, or they actually really found coding stressful or meaningless. But of course it helps them bond with their engineers more if they can show that despite their +120% income and despite their more beautiful house and wife, and despite having more power they actually suffer because they are not a fellow developer anymore. One can also argue that the developer who stays developer his whole career is actually not someone who was overlooked at promotions, but someone who really enjoys the coding grind, the low amount of visibility and the low amount of responsibility. But the bonding with their friends is much higher if they can hate on the management together instead of admiting that they actually like what they do and how they do it. Altogether these realizations made me more relaxed about life. In the end it's not that the world is full of suffering, but we actually choose the suffering that makes us most happy.